Category: Israel
Israel’s racist and ethnocentric roots
Jamal Kanj highlights the racism of Israel, “the only nation where religious ethnicity is an automatic qualifier for citizenship and where the rights of indigenous people are denied for ‘deficient’ maternal genetics”.
Israel, Syria and Assad’s useful idiots
One of the most frequently recurring myths about Syria is that Israel does not regard Bashar Assad as being in its interest and that it is trying to hasten his fall by
America’s Muslim Zionists
The name sounds benign enough: the American Islamic Congress (AIC). The mission appears equally harmless, if somewhat vague: We believe American Muslims must take the lead in building tolerance and fostering a
It’s all about appeasing Israeli racism
Jamal Kanj says the latest US “peace proposal” – swapping lands seized by Israel in 1948 with ones it occupied in 1967 – is immoral and illegal and appeases racism.
Israel again rebuffs peace with the Arab world
Jonathan Cook argues that Israel’s lack of interest in the latest Arab territorial concession exposes its longstanding lie that the Arabs "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity" to make peace.
Religious persecution and Israeli exceptionalism
Stuart Littlewood examines a prime example of double standards from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, which exempts Israeli persecution of non-Jewish faiths from its list of religious persecutors.
Israel’s ethnocentric experiment
Jamal Kanj views Israel's escalating preconditions for talks with the Palestinians, all of which have yielded absolutely nothing and are intended to turn peace negotiations into a process to end all peace.
Why Russian Jews are right-wing racists
Uri Avnery explains why Israel’s “Russian Jews” are so obnoxious – racist warmongers who read rabidly fascist newspapers and vote for their own party, led by Moldovan bouncer Evet “Avigdor” Lieberman.
European Football rewards Israeli racism
Stuart Littlewood wonders how the European football association UEFA can square its commitment to zero tolerance of racism with allowing the under-21 finals to be held in racist, apartheid Israel.
UK travel privileges for Israeli outlaws
Craig Murray, a former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, highlights another instance of the UK government bending over backwards to accommodate Israeli outlaws. We all know about the British government amending its laws